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It was a subject that everyone seemed to be talking about these days - who liked who, who was going to go out, who said that so-and-so liked so-and-so… but Greg had never asked me before and for some reason I was not sure how to answer.

Not surprisingly, given the litigious times in which we live, most writers turn coy when quizzed about whether so-and-so was the model for a character.

Meanwhile so-and-so has to come to school, and do you think he doesn't know what people are saying behind his back?

Yeah, I remember when so-and-so left a dead fish in my locker.

I always find it so interesting to note how different personalities play together, and how one personality might find so-and-so a perfect match whilst another personality might find the same so-and-so intensely irritating!

Do I have to remember so-and-so's phone number?

So you have people saying, well, we have to trust these people because Lady so-and-so or Lord so-and-so have seen this thing.

My name is so-and-so and I tried to kill myself by doing this!

I pouted and folded my arms again, energy sapped because a certain so-and-so decided to shoot down my enthusiasm.

I'm always a little suspicious of such claims… and not just because it seems quite possible for someone to take an old piece of clothing and claim that so-and-so wore it in such-and-such a film.

I have also seen many names such as so-and-so real estate advisory company or management advisory company.

From there, it pretty much boils down to so-and-so begot so-and-so, with certain offspring taking the high road while others took the low.

They have whispering campaigns without including so-and-so, making sure so-and-so knows about it.

I want to know people that you can pick up the phone to, and say, ‘Do you remember so-and-so?’

Are the world's leading recording companies a bunch of spoiled, ungrateful, money-grabbing so-and-sos or what?

He's a tough so-and-so, and he'll figure out how to do it.

But, being the conniving old so-and-so he is, he went one better.

Presumably that's because he knows all about being bossed around by a miserable old so-and-so that everyone wishes would retire.

But they're bright little so-and-sos, both of them, and he knows as well as she does that he will never be enough to make her happy.

And we thought, well, poor so-and-sos, they're in the same kind of muck as we are.

But my table companions were disappointed when it came to dessert and they found that the trifle had been completely gobbled up by some greedy so-and-sos who were there earlier in the evening.

It is unlikely that I would have phoned up for tickets if I wasn't a contrary so-and-so.

I appreciate that I've been a bit of a so-and-so, but you've made your point and I will try to be different.

My current gardener is a lazy so-and-so and I'm sorely tempted to give him his marching orders.

When I see my team-mates in the bar after a game I sometimes wonder if they are saying it's about time that old so-and-so gave up.

There is the ever present, ‘Should I leave so-and-so because I think he's a son of a so-and-so?’

Ask people what they think of politicians and most will reply that they are a bunch of lying, cheating, self-interested so-and-sos.

You can imagine, then, how annoyed I am to find out that the so-and-sos have double-crossed me: the decent thing I thought they were doing was in fact an unspeakably sleazy trick that makes sense only as part of a cover-up.

He knew I was a determined so-and-so, and he knew what buttons to press to get the best out of me.

People would call him a lucky so-and-so, but he had skill and application and he was very, very clever.

He used to be such a good sport, but now he's a grumpy old so-and-so.

Well, what about their statement as they leave the building, saying that he had spoken softly and what a smart so-and-so he was.

And dammit we don't need to do that to be well armed or be the baddest so-and-so in the valley.